(NewsNation) — Friday marks World Down Syndrome Day, which is supposed to coach folks concerning the prognosis.
On Thursday, Gigi Gianni, the 22-year-old namesake and chief inspiration officer for Gigi’s Playhouse and her mom, Nancy, who based the group, went to talk about their expertise on the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Gigi’s Playhouse is a non-profit that helps households and people with Down Syndrome by giving them schooling, remedy and finally serving to with constructing profession abilities, all totally free.
Gigi Gianni says she was joyful to talk to the United Nations about her journey.
On the UN, Nancy Gianni mentioned seeing her daughter discuss how she issues and is valued “meant every little thing to me.”
When Gigi Gianni was first born, Nancy mentioned, the household knew there was a stigma about Down Syndrome.
“As soon as we received her house and noticed what a tremendous particular person she was again then and nonetheless is at this time, we opened the primary Gigi’s Playhouse Down Syndrome Achievement Heart,” Nancy Gianni mentioned.
Now, it has 61 places, and serves households in 93 international locations.
